Kyoto
Japan
Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area home to approximately 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe.
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Practical facts
- Local time
- UTC+9 · 15 h ahead of Costa Rica
- Main language
- Japanese
- On the map
- 35.01° N, 135.77° E
Near Kyoto
- Otsu · 8 km away
- Uji · 14 km away
- Nara · 36 km away
- Osaka · 43 km away
- Takashima · 45 km away
- Kobe · 63 km away
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Where to stay
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